Al-Yaarubiyah

Al-Yaarubiyah (Arabic: اليعربية‎) (Kurdish: Til Koçer‎)[1] is a town in al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Al-Yaarubiyah had a population of 6,066 in the 2004 census. It is the administrative center of a nahiyah ("subdistrict") consisting of 62 localities with a combined population of 39,459 in 2004.[2]

Al-Yaarubiyah

اليعربية
Town
Al-Yaarubiyah
Coordinates: 36°48′42″N 42°3′59″E
Country Syria
Governorateal-Hasakah
Districtal-Malikiyah
Subdistrictal-Yaarubiyah
Control Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria
Population
 (2004)
 • Total6,066
Time zoneUTC+3 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (EEST)

Its population are mostly Arabs of the Shammar tribe. In the course of the Syrian Civil War, the town initially came under the control of jihadist rebels, including the al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, but was later captured by the People's Protection Units (YPG),[3] bringing it into the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria.

Border post

The town was the border post between French-Syria and British-Iraq and had a railway station on the Baghdad Railway.

Germans, Norwegians, French-Syrian colonial officials and others at the train station in Tell Kotchek, 1940.

It is twinned by Rabia on the Iraqi side of the border.

References
  1. Syrian Kurds ache for a lifeline by Karlos Zurutuza, Middle East Eye, 12 February 2015
  2. General Census of Population and Housing 2004Archived 2014-08-24 at the Wayback Machine. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Al-Hasakah Governorate. (in Arabic)
  3. "Syrian Kurds capture border post". Retrieved 13 July 2015.
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